VIRUS-L Digest Monday, 6 Feb 1989 Volume 2 : Issue 37 Today's Topics: Not So Sneaky, Maybe (Mac) How-to-Infect Book Master virus listing --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 06 Feb 89 10:13:59 EST From: Joe McMahon Subject: Not So Sneaky, Maybe (Mac) >From: Sam Cropsey >Subject: Sneak Virus (Mac) > >Has anyone dealt with the sneak virus? Well we have it and I sure do >not want it. If anyone has some info...please send it to me at: > >SAM@POMONA or SCROPSEY@PCMATH. Thanks... What version of Interferon are you using, and in what application did you find a "Sneak" virus? You have a couple of possibilites here. One, you really do have a virus, but Interferon is too old to know it (Hpat or INIT 29). Two, you have System 6.0.2 and an Interferon previous to 3.0 (that will show the new LaserPrep and LaserWriter drivers as in- fected), or you have TOPS (whose internal structure LOOKS like a Sneak virus, but isn't). - --- Joe M. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Feb 89 11:04:42 ECT From: Art Weisenseel Subject: How-to-Infect Book In Bill Machrone's column in the latest PC Magazine (Feb. 28, 1989) he mentions that he has seen a book which shows interested parties not how to protect oneself against viruses and the like, but how to WRITE the suckers. The author has thoughtfully provided listings in 370 Assembler, EXEC (the Christmas EXEC!), PC Assembler, Pascal, BASIC, etc. etc.. Monitor and floppy drive destroying tips also seem to be included, as well as advice on how to hide your handiwork. Machrone has not offered the title or the author's name, but if the book really exists and if its techniques really work I'm sure we will hear a lot more of it real soon now. Great. An "Anarchist's Cookbook" for computers. I think the concept is pretty reprehensible. Art Weisenseel PR0032@BINGVMB.BITNET Computer Services State University of New York - College at Purchase "Twenty Seconds Ahead of the Past" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 15:56 EST From: Subject: Master virus listing As a somewhat new member of this list, I was wondering if anyone has compiled a list of major viruses, and their symptoms. Also, if such a list already exists, where would I find it? It would make these messages much easier to understand.... Paul Bienvenue ------------------------------ End of VIRUS-L Digest ********************* Downloaded From P-80 International Information Systems 304-744-2253